List of the best Ruby Dee movies: A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner(1998), That Man of Mine(1947), Countdown at Kusini(1976), No. 2(2006), Uptight(1968), Gone Are the Days(1963), The Jackie Robinson Story(1950), The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson(1990), Video Girl(2010), Steam(2007), Taking Back Our Town(2001), Do the Right Thing(1989) ... ...
8.3/10
Documentary
USA
1998
70 Minutes
Ruby Dee Webb Wilcoxen
This intimate documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help those discarded by society. The film traces the evolution of Norma's ... See full summary »
Musical
1947
103 Minutes
Joan
Ruby Dee Rhina Harris Flow Hawkins Betty Haynes Powell Lindsay Harrel Tillman Henri Woode Tommie Moore
A producer and his director argue about who should be cast as the female lead in their new film and offend the woman they reject for the part.
Drama
1976
101 Minutes
Leah Matanzima
Ruby Dee Ossie Davis Greg Morris Tom Aldredge Michael Ebert Thomas Baptiste
An Afro-American jazz pianist (Greg Morris) becomes involved with a patriot (Ossie Davis) hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
Comedy, Drama
2006
94 Minutes
Ruby Dee Mia Blake Rene Naufahu Miriama McDowell Taungaroa Emile Xavier Horan Tuva Novotny Antony Starr Tanea Heke Nathaniel Lees Pio Terei
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1968
104 Minutes
Raymond St. Jacques Ruby Dee Frank Silvera Roscoe Lee Browne Julian Mayfield Janet MacLachlan Max Julien Juanita Moore Richard Williams Michael Baseleon Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, "The Informer."
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1963
97 Minutes
Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Sorrell Booke Godfrey Cambridge Hilda Haynes Alan Alda Beah Richards Charles Welch Ralph Roberts
reverend fiancée son plantation owner old man engaging spirited playful witty plantation barn church cotchipee, ga. civil rights deception father/son relationship schemes integration racism quest
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Biography
USA
1950
76 Minutes
Ruby Dee Minor Watson Louise Beavers Richard Lane Harry Shannon Ben Lessy Billy Wayne Joel Fluellen Bernie Hamilton Kenny Washington Pat Flaherty
baseball player jackie robinson mother wife coach bigot emotional heartwarming rousing powerful america montreal stadium new york city brooklyn, n.y. baseball american dream race relations family rise
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
6.0/10
Drama
UK|France|Germany|USA
1990
97 Minutes
Jackie's mother
Andre Braugher Ruby Dee Stan Shaw Daniel Stern Kasi Lemmons J.A. Preston Steven Williams Bruce Dern
army officer african-american baseball player mother attorney joe louis passionate rousing inspiring emotional fort hood, texas army base courtroom bus jackie robinson segregation court-martial racism military life family
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
5.4/10
Drama
USA
2010
109 Minutes
Meagan Good Ruby Dee LisaRaye McCoy Adam Senn Paul Ben-Victor Edrick Browne La'Myia Good Melyssa Ford Laila Odom Datari Turner Taylor Faye Ruffin
An aspiring ballerina, after a knee injury, ends up in a new career as a video girl. She soon figures out that fame is not all that it is cracked up to be.
4.8/10
Drama
USA
2007
120 Minutes
Ally Sheedy Ruby Dee Kate Siegel Reshma Shetty Zach Mills Maxine Bahns Chelsea Handler Alan Ritchson
Steam tells the stories of three women, linked only by the steam room at the local gym. The women seem "stuck" in life, until eachfinds a new, fulfilling relationship.
Drama
2001
96 Minutes
Emelda West
Laura Innes Ruby Dee Myndy Crist Hallee Hirsh Chris Bauer Jake Fritz Davenia McFadden Kate Norby
Pat Melancon (Laura Innes) and Emelda West (Ruby Dee) work together to stop a corporation from building a petrochemical plant.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1989
120 Minutes
Mother Sister
Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro Rosie Perez Paul Benjamin Frankie Faison
owner brother son sister young boy gutsy intense witty street restaurant brooklyn, n.y. racism violence civil rights community rivalry 1980s
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1961
128 Minutes
Ruth Younger
Sidney Poitier Claudia McNeil Ruby Dee Diana Sands Ivan Dixon John Fiedler Louis Gossett Jr. Stephen Perry Joel Fluellen Roy E. Glenn Sr. Ray Stubbs
son mother wife widow sister suitor emotional moving chicago apartment american dream aspirations family racism social change money love discovery underdog 1950s
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1959
100 Minutes
Christine
Johnny Nash Estelle Hemsley Ruby Dee Frederick O'Neal Ellen Holly Paulene Myers Beah Richards Royce Wallace Frances Foster Delmar Erickson Dee Pollak
african-american teenager grandmother housekeeper mother classmate prostitute emotional brooding engaging powerful high school family home bar apartment teen angst racial tension culture clash rebellion grandparent/child relationship fitting in
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Western
USA
1972
102 Minutes
Ruth
Sidney Poitier Harry Belafonte Ruby Dee Cameron Mitchell Nita Talbot John Kelly Tony Brubaker Bobby Johnson James McEachin Clarence Muse Lynn Hamilton
trail guide preacher con artist bounty hunter former slave amusing thrilling united states wild west wagon train homesteading teamwork freedom labor quest escape underdog 1860s
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Comedy
1993
93 Minutes
Rachel
Burt Reynolds Norman D. Golden II Ruby Dee Holland Taylor Ray Sharkey Sammy Hernandez Frank Sivero Rocky Giordani Marc Macaulay Tom McCleister
young boy police officer mobster grandmother friend police chief amusing thrilling tampa, fla. warehouse elementary school bathroom bar police station odd couple witnessing murder grandparent/child relationship aspirations television police work
Teaming with a crusty detective (Burt Reynolds) is a dream come true for an 8-year-old murder witness (Norman D. Golden II).
Drama
1999
96 Minutes
Mommit Porter
Andre Braugher Rip Torn Ruby Dee Sean Squire Bill Nunn Daniel Hugh Kelly Tony Colitti Khalil Kain Tony Bond Anderson Bourell Khaz B
teacher pastor student father basketball coach inspiring spirited powerful new orleans high school basketball court basketball race relations competition coming of age the big game education underdog quest rivalry
The Rev. Joseph Verrett (Andre Braugher) organizes a game between his team of black champions and an undefeated white prep-school team in New Orleans.
Biography
1974
100 Minutes
Ruth Campanella
Paul Winfield Louis Gossett Jr. Ruby Dee Ramon Bieri Joe De Santis Ty Henderson Lloyd Gough Eric Scott Woods Ketty Lester Julian Burton Len Lesser
baseball player wife son physical therapist mother doctor emotional gripping inspiring los angeles baseball field new york state household baseball accident paralysis marriage family hope quest
Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella (Paul Winfield) adjusts to life in a wheelchair after a 1959 car accident.
7.2/10
Biography
USA
1958
93 Minutes
Elizabeth
Nat King Cole Eartha Kitt Pearl Bailey Ruby Dee Cab Calloway Ella Fitzgerald Mahalia Jackson
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the ... See full summary »
5.9/10
Drama
USA
2006
93 Minutes
Michael Houston King Julie Harris Tessie Santiago Ruby Dee Danny Nucci Deezer D Amy Landers Mina Badie
Life affirming spiritual drama about love and loss set in the lush surroundings of Central Florida. Spencer Krane has returned to the town where he was raised. It is the news that his ... See full summary »
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
78 Minutes
Rachel
Dick Powell Paula Raymond Adolphe Menjou Marshall Thompson Ruby Dee Will Geer Richard Rober Florence Bates Victor Kilian Katharine Warren Leif Erickson
assassin detective sister slave abraham lincoln criminal suspenseful thrilling train baltimore new york city assassination presidency murder plot police work conspiracy crime pursuit underdog 1860s
A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1957
85 Minutes
Lucy Tyler
John Cassavetes Sidney Poitier Jack Warden Kathleen Maguire Ruby Dee Robert F. Simon Ruth White William A. Lee Val Avery John Kellogg David Clarke
dockworker boss friend wife manager gritty rousing manhattan docks racism labor union self-respect corruption secret awol underdog rivalry transformation 1950s
Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.
6.2/10
Horror
USA
1982
118 Minutes
Female
Nastassja Kinski Malcolm McDowell John Heard Annette O'Toole Ed Begley Jr. Ruby Dee Scott Paulin Frankie Faison Lynn Lowry John Larroquette Tessa Richarde
brother sister zoologist love interest sultry gory intense new orleans household zoo murder jealousy incest curse cats metamorphosis forbidden love rivalry 1980s
A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.
5.9/10
Comedy
USA
2012
91 Minutes
Annie McCall
Eddie Murphy Kerry Washington Cliff Curtis Clark Duke Allison Janney Ruby Dee Kayla Blake Winston Rocha Bethany Dwyer Alain Chabat Lennie Loftin
literary agent guru wife associate family member outlandish hysterical heartwarming office household city coffee shop yard words magic spell spiritual lesson honesty corporate culture redemption discovery
After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word he speaks.
Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
2012
120 Minutes
Cornel West Alice Walker Angela Davis Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Giancarlo Esposito Ruby Dee
Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis and others discuss the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an imprisoned journalist who continues to write, provoke and inspire from behind prison walls.
Romance
1959
84 Minutes
Ruth
John Cassavetes Virginia Maskell Sidney Poitier Isabel Dean Colin Gordon Howard Marion-Crawford Edric Connor Ruby Dee Gladys Boot Julian Mayfield Reginald Hearne
An American writer (John Cassavetes) and his bride (Virginia Maskell) bask in the Caribbean, with an islander as their man Friday (Sidney Poitier).
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1972
97 Minutes
Netta's mother
Brock Peters Leslie Uggams Peggy Pettit Claudia McNeil Louise Stubbs Gloria Edwards Loretta Greene Kent Martin Ruby Dee
daughter sister single mother adopted daughter grandmother tender emotional moving family home mother/child relationship dreams siblings family dysfunction jealousy poverty growing up rivalry 1970s
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1984
97 Minutes
Mrs. Grimes
Paul Winfield Rosalind Cash James Bond III Roderick Wimberly Olivia Cole Ving Rhames Alfre Woodard CCH Pounder Linda Hopkins Ruby Dee
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy ... See full summary »
Drama
1950
106 Minutes
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
Richard Widmark Linda Darnell Sidney Poitier Stephen McNally Mildred Joanne Smith Harry Bellaver Stanley Ridges Dotts Johnson Amanda Randolph Ruby Dee Ken Christy
doctor robber racist widow surgeon brother tense fiery suspenseful hospital city race relations racism revenge accidental death revenge pursuit rivalry 1950s
A hoodlum (Richard Widmark) sparks a race riot after his brother dies under a doctor's (Sidney Poitier) care.
7.8/10
Crime, Biography, Drama
USA|UK
2007
157 Minutes
Denzel Washington Russell Crowe Chiwetel Ejiofor Cuba Gooding Jr. Josh Brolin Ted Levine Armand Assante RZA John Ortiz John Hawkes Roger Guenveur Smith
detective mobster gangster police officer gritty dark new york city restaurant police station nightclub drug trafficking organized crime ambition murder mafia corruption pursuit revenge 1990s
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
5.3/10
Drama
USA
1996
105 Minutes
Timothy Hutton Lela Rochon Bill Nunn Charles W. Gray Jackie Richardson Michael Clarke Karen Robinson Stephen Walsh Linda Goranson Ardon Bess Lawrence Dane
husband wife racist police officer supreme court justice tense tender heartwarming american south courtroom household jail prejudice marriage race relations court battles jim crow laws love quest sacrifice
M.J. Clayton is a high profile Art Critic in Chicago. He is known throughout the country for his heartless and angry reviews, and is often scolded by his publisher. After a particularly ... See full summary »
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